The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 83
That haunt, in memory glassed, Childhood perpetual o’er their lives distilled: And, coast what shore they might, green vale and plain Bred whiter flocks, men said, more golden grain.
Who acts: haunt · What happens: glass, distil, plain, breed, say · To what, where: memory, lives, Bred whiter flocks, golden grain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haunt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 haunt | det |
| 2 | haunt | haunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 memory | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 memory | case |
| 5 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 haunt | appos |
| 6 | glassed | glass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 memory | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 perpetual | punct |
| 8 | Childhood | Childhood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 perpetual | compound |
| 9 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 haunt | conj |
| 10 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 12 lives | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lives | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 perpetual | nmod |
| 13 | distilled | distil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lives | acl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 coast | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 coast | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 coast | punct |
| 17 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 haunt | conj |
| 18 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coast | appos |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 might | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 shore | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 vale | punct |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 vale | amod |
| 24 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coast | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 plain | cc |
| 26 | plain | plain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 vale | conj |
| 27 | Bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 flocks | amod |
| 28 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 flocks | amod |
| 29 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 plain | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 haunt | punct |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grain | punct |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 golden | advmod |
| 35 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 grain | amod |
| 36 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glass | participle | memory not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | distil | participle | haunt's lives not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | plain | present | that haunt and Childhood perpetual o'er haunt's lives and coast and green vale not said here | Bred whiter flocks | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | breed | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | that haunt and Childhood perpetual o'er haunt's lives and coast and green vale | golden grain | men nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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